[tialaramex]

Gibson doesn't know anything about technology.

He's from the school of American SF writing that Stanisław Lem criticised (Lem wrote actual criticism as well as his SF that's in the form of criticism of works that don't actually exist, which was translated as "A Perfect Vacuum").

I don't have much time for this myself, preferring writers to speculate about things they actually know something about - but he's been very successful.

[0_____0]

It tickles me to know that, for all the future-gazing technology-laden stories he spun, that his seminal novel Neuromancer was composed on a typewriter

[staticman2]

So-called hard science fiction writers do not seem to make more plausible predictions about the future. It's not clear they are even trying to, since plausibility doesn't necessarily mean entertaining. The so called hard science fiction writer just throws some references to math or physics among the implausible world building.